· Private foundation
The Janice Gardner Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $2k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $313k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $579k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOPE INTERFAITH CENTER | $250,000 |
| JACK'S CAREGIVER COALITION | $75,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $54,000 |
| WASHBURN CENTER FOR CHILDREN | $50,000 |
| YOUTH FARM | $50,000 |
| CANDO CANINES | $50,000 |
| WINGSPAN LIFE RESOURCES | $50,000 |
| CANVAS HEALTH | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| WAYCROSS EVANGELICAL CHURCH | $50,000 |
| ALEX'S LEMONADE STAND | $50,000 |
| LOAVES & FISHES | $50,000 |
| HUNGER SOLUTIONS MINNESOTA | $40,000 |
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION | $40,000 |
| MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $324k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
29 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $236k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- JCJACKS CAREGIVER COALITION4× · 2021–2024 · $101k · revenue +112%
- UGUNION GOSPEL MISSION INC4× · 2021–2024 · $82k · revenue +122%
- CDCAN DO CANINES6× · 2019–2024 · $76k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- PPPAW PADSone grant, 2023 · $15k
- HOHOUSE OF THE CHILDRENone grant, 2017 · $8k
- FCFRAUENSHUH CANCER CENTERone grant, 2021 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Touchstone mental health provides innovative, person-centered services that foster hope, health and well-being. we envision a world where all people whose lives are affected by mental illness will flourish with effective treatment, quality…
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence.
To amplify the voices of those with lived experience, support adoptive, foster, and kinship families, educate child welfare professionals, and champion the well-being of children and families. whether you are seeking guidance or working to…
The mission of mental health resources is to foster hope, health and recovery for people affected by mental illness and substance use disorder.
Strengthening lives, families, and communities through our cornerstone values.
Living Well Disability Services transforms the lives of people impacted by disabilities through the delivery of exceptional services.
Fairview is driven to heal, discover, and educate for longer, healthier lives.
Provide quality, accessible, and valuable health care services via a hospital, home health agency, and clinic to the surrounding rural community.
Together, we create a warm and welcoming community enriching the lives of those we support.
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Angel Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Kids At Risk Action. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 47 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Fairview Foundation ↗
- Who funds JACKS CAREGIVER COALITION ↗
- Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds CAN DO CANINES ↗
- Who funds BLUE STAR OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds WINGSPAN LIFE RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds ALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Youth Farm and Market Project ↗
- Who funds HUNGER SOLUTIONS MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds METRO MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds PARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Washburn Center for Children ↗
- Who funds CANVAS HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC ELDERCARE ↗
- Who funds EVERY THIRD SATURDAY INC ↗
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- Who funds HELP HOSPITALIZED VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds BUCKHORN CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Women's Foundation of Minnesota ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER FOUNDATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Wca Foundation · Bentson Foundation · Allina Health System
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Janice Gardner Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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